On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 03:27:59PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Horms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-15 20:10]: > > 1. If Herbet is no longer the maintainer, who is? > > A group of people which use debian-kernel@lists.debian.org to > communicate; the effort is led by William Irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks, I have subsequently joined that list. > > 3. Are there any plans to remove any of these packages in the near > > future. > > There have been efforts to reduce the number of kernel source packages > in Debian. Andreas Barth has done some work on this and can tell you > more. The plan is to ship with one source package per major revision > (2.2, 2.4, 2.6; there have been talks about removing 2.2, but it seems > some architectures still need it.) Thanks, that sounds good to me. > > 5. Is there a mailing list / web page / whatever that outlines > > what kernels are currently available in what distribution, > > which are planned for removal, etc... > > Maybe Andreas Barth has collected this information. > > > 6. Does anyone check the CVEs and other vendor's updated kernel > > package advisories as they come out to make sure that the > > debian packages are up to date? > > > 7. Is there any value in me refiling these bugs, and possibly other > > of a similar vein, against other kernel-source packages. > > And if so, which ones? > > Against the newest 2.4 and 2.6, but obviously only if they still have > those problems. Of course. I will look into which of the bugs are still present. I don't think that many of the ones that i originally listed are present in the latest kernel.org kernel. -- Horms
